She then posted a longer statement, which read: “I have been asked and want to reassure people after today’s hatchet job in The Sun that I have been busy recording my fourth solo album and it’s very close to being finished.

“I have postponed its delivery because I want to be on hand to settle my daughter into big school this Sept. I just hope that Rupert Murdoch 85, on wife no 4 and father of six, will be around to witness and report on the next ten years of my life.”